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Word文档下载后（可任意编辑） 第 第 PAGE 1 页 共 NUMPAGES 1 页 ACT阅读备考双语文章讲解1  ACT考试技巧：ACT阅读备考双语文章讲解1  ACT考试精品课程指导  Women working at UK asset managers receivebonuses that are as much as 70 per cent below theirmale colleagues in revelations that will pile pressureon a sector that has been branded “pale, male andstale” to tackle its wide gender pay gap.  在英国资产管理公司工作的女性获得的奖金比男性同事低70%，这一消息将对一个被贴上“白人、男性和陈腐”标签的行业加大压力，推动它解决巨大的男女薪酬差距。  According to initial data that companies have filed tocomply with new UK rules, salaries for womenworking in the fund industry are up to 40 per centless than those paid to men, while the gap on bonuses is up to 72 per cent.  根据企业为遵守英国新规而申报的初步数据，在基金行业工作的女性薪资比男性薪资低40%，而奖金的差距则高达72%。  Fund managers linked the difference in pay to the lack of senior women in their organisations,as well as more women working part-time.  基金经理们将薪酬差异与两个事实联系在一起：一是所在公司担任高级职位的女性较少，二是从事兼职工作的女性相对较多。  Bev Shah, founder of CityHive, a network for women in finance, said it will be interesting towatch how these numbers change over the years.  金融业女性网络CityHive的创始人比夫?沙阿(Bev Shah)表示，观察这些数字在未来几年将如何变化将很有意思。  “It’s not a surprise to anyone that the gender pay gap numbers for asset management are howthey are. You just need to open your eyes and walk around the investment floors to see howthe numbers will look,” she said.  “资产管理行业男女薪资差距的现状不应该让任何人意外。你只需要睁大眼睛，去各家投资公司转一转，就能看出这些数字将会是什么样子，”她说。  Standard Life Aberdeen, the merged company that has created the UK’s largest-listed assetmanager, said on Friday men were paid on average 34 per cent more than women at Aberdeen,and 42 per cent more than women in Standard Life.  英国最 大上市资产管理公司、由标准人寿和阿伯丁合并而成的标准人寿阿伯丁(Standard Life Aberdeen,SLA)最近表示，在阿伯丁，男性薪酬平均比女性高出34%，而在标准人寿，男性薪酬平均比女性高出42%。  “The truth of the matter is we need to do better,” said Keith Skeoch, co-chief executive ofSLA. “We have to work harder and put programmes in place to improve gender and diversityacross the piece.”  “问题的真相是，我